Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark

Princess Eugénie
Princess Dominik Radziwiłł
Duchess of Castel Duino

Princess Eugenie as a child
Born (1910-02-10)10 February 1910
Paris, France
Died 13 February 1989(1989-02-13) (aged 79)
Geneva, Switzerland
Spouse Prince Dominik Radziwiłł
Raimundo, 2nd Duke of Castel Duino
Issue Princess Tatiana Radziwiłł
Prince Jerzy Radziwiłł
Carlo Alessandro, 3rd Duke of Castel Duino
House Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Father Prince George of Greece and Denmark
Mother Princess Marie Bonaparte
Religion Roman Catholicism

Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Πριγκίπισσα Ευγενία της Ελλάδας και Δανίας) (10 February 1910 – 13 February 1989) was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte. Her father was the second son of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia.[1]

As a cousin of the bridegroom, she was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.[2]

She authored Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr, a biography of Aleksey Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, written in French, which was published in 1990.

Marriage and issue

She married Dominik Rainer Radziwiłł on 30 May 1938 in Paris. They divorced in 1946.[1] They had two children:[3]

Eugénie remarried on 28 November 1949 to Prince Raymundo della Torre e Tasso, Duke of Castel Duino. Their marriage also ended in divorce, in 1965.[1] They had one son:


Ancestry


Titles, styles, honours, and arms

Titles and styles

Honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 Paul Theroff. "Greece". An Online Gotha. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  2. Royal Collection: Seating plan for the Ball Supper Room http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?grouping=&exhibs=NONE&object=9000366&row=82&detail=magnify
  3. Genealogy
  4. 1 2 Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. (also known as Daniel Willis), The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia, Clearfield Co., Inc., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1966, p. 166.
  5. Coronation of Elizabeth II


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